Ask HN: What is an "outdated" tool or plugin that you refuse to switch from/why?

by simojoon 3/10/2025, 12:58 PMwith 13 comments

In the age of github stars being inflated and people jumping ship to ship between mainstream projects, I'm curious to hear other's opinions.

by solardevon 3/10/2025, 2:42 PM

All the cool kids are on VScode or Cursor, but I still use and love my boring old Jetbrains IDEs every day. It makes me feel old every time I see someone else's screenshot and realize I am pretty much the only one in all the companies I've ever worked for who likes Jetbrains. Too bad! It's a great IDE.

by alexitosrvon 3/10/2025, 2:25 PM

I still depend heavily on textfx npp plugins for many mundane tasks, such as quickly sorting a few lines in a text file and I have not bothered to find a replacement so far, like in almost 2 decades hehehe

by muzanion 3/10/2025, 2:07 PM

I like Sublime Text because it's fast, has multiple cursors. And it's pretty. It's redundant with Obsidian but it just feels good.

by JohnFenon 3/10/2025, 3:36 PM

None of the tools I use are actually outdated. If they were, I'd stop using them. However, I have no idea what would be considered "outdated" by the standards of most HN readers, so I can't actually answer this question.

by hiAndrewQuinnon 3/10/2025, 3:17 PM

vim tbh, grep, awk, bash

by baddateon 3/11/2025, 5:41 AM

xbrowsersync

by needcontainerson 3/10/2025, 1:06 PM

https://cog.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Super simple tool that I use for everything from project templating to code generation to LLM driven docs.